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>Chapter 5. Using Bochs</H1
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>- using plugins?
- Resources for users
testing status page: tells what has been tried and who got it working
search on bochs web site
SourceForge
  - look for bug reports
  - how to report problems (present as FIXME request in chapter 6 as well)
  - How to make feature requests?</PRE
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>The following table shows the arguments that can be used on the command line.
For other arguments, see section <A
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>Table 5-1. command line arguments</B
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>-q</TD
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>quick start (skip configuration interface)</TD
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>-f <TT
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>specify configuration file</TD
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>don't try to load a configuration file</TD
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>-r <TT
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>specify path for restoring state (if save/restore support is compiled in)</TD
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>--help</TD
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>These arguments are handled directly after starting Bochs. The next step is to load
a default or specified configuration file (unless disabled with -n). Then the rest
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configuration file so that the command line arguments can override the settings
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